11. Keys and Doors
"Looking into my eyes."
In the temporary tent, Merlin looked at the crazy Hydra. He lifted the guy's face, then took off Icarus and activated the soul-catching spell.
When Merlin entered the spirit of this Hydra, he found that the guy's memory was almost completely broken.
It's like the will is broken by some force.
And as time goes by, this guy's memory is quickly filled with other weird things, the weird power is not malice, but it is obviously not something that ordinary people of these Hydras can bear.
Merlin looked through the fragments of memory that were no longer arranged in linear order. Soon, he found what he wanted to see.
A picture of memory unfolds before Merlin's eyes.
The guy was running wildly in a somewhat dilapidated building with a few people, as if someone was chasing them.
This should be a memory of the liquidation operation being in progress.
A few of them were chased miserably and could only follow the stairs and finally rushed into the basement of the building. The building should have been established in the Soviet era. It has a design concept of military facilities. The basement is very wide, like an air raid shelter.
These Hydras were running wildly in the darkness. They came to a locked door in the basement. Several people were discussing something fiercely. They seemed a little hesitant, but in the end, several people reached an agreement.
They smashed the door of the locked room with their hammer heads and rushed into it.
The guy who was looking through the memory of Merlin raised his head and saw a wall, which was engraved with ancient Kerry words. It was a huge system, a huge image, and the words composed of strange lines and circles filled the wall.
The last scene of this memory image is when this guy looked up at the words left by the ancient Kerry people. The next moment, the memory was broken.
“Those words”
Even if he was just watching in his memory, Merlin was also disturbed by the spiritual level when he used the memory of this crazy guy to read those words. The thing was like Agent Mike said, like a source of pollution, which could be spread with the help of human thinking, like a rubbing.
However, this faint interference is not a big problem for Merlin, just like the faint waves on the sea surface that cannot disperse the solid reefs.
"These stupid guys opened a door that shouldn't have been opened."
Merlin finished the soul-calling spell, and he watched the guy who was being read, rolling on the ground in pain, holding his head and rolling, but there was no mercy in his eyes.
He said to Mike:
"They released what was behind the door, which was very described. It was spread by any thoughts that saw it, like a plague of the mind, but it was not malicious in itself."
"No doubt it was a dangerous item 084, start the containment process immediately, Mike."
Merlin said:
"Gather the infected agents, according to my current guess, as long as I don't see the words with my own eyes, I will not fall into hopeless madness, but the 'plague' remaining on their spiritual level may take some time to calm down. In short, protect our people."
"In addition, the building where the Belarus branch of SHIELD is located"
Merlin looked at Mike and he whispered:
"Is it called Todolov Building?"
"Uh, it seems."
Mike said:
"That seems to be its name in the former Soviet Union, and now it has changed its name. Is there any problem? Sir."
"No, there's no problem."
Merlin said:
"You guys prepare the containment procedures first, I'll go to that building to take a look."
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Merlin just lied.
The building where the Belarusian branch is located, the Todorov building is not meaningless. In fact, this is not the first time Merlin heard the name of the building.
A long time ago, when Merlin had not penetrated the real world as deeply as he is now, he had an intersection with this building.
But that was a long time ago, so long that Merlin himself forgot about it.
"Swish"
His figure appeared in the twisted light on the roof of the evacuated Todolov building.
The building is really dilapidated. It was built in the former Soviet Union after all, but it is still in use. In addition to the S.H.E.L.D. Belarus branch, there are other companies in the building that are renting other floors.
But they didn't know that in the basement of this building, to be precise, a house like a utility room in the basement of D5 District, there were some unknown secrets hidden.
"Barbie? Have you withdrawn from this building?"
Merlin asked in the communicator, and a few seconds later, the exhausted voice of Barbie Agent:
"I had already withdrawn 15 minutes ago, sir, but my head hurts now. Hell, there are some strange things in that building. It keeps printing some weird pictures in my mind, those lines and circles are broken, and I can't understand these things at all."
"But now it's better, sir."
Barbie says:
"It seems that the farther away from it, the weaker the influence of that power will be. I am much better now than before. I couldn't control my hands just now. It was really fatal to want to draw the pictures in my mind."
"Yeah, I get it."
Merlin said:
"Mike is preparing for the containment process and it may take a little while you continue to block the building at a safe distance and don't let anyone get close to it. I'll go see what's hidden in person."
“Ok.”
Agent Barbie hung up the communication. In the evening light, Merlin stood on the roof. The corner of his clothes was blown up by the wind. He stretched out his hand and a cold thing appeared in his palm.
It was a broken metal key with marks on it, and even rust on it.
And on the key, there is a line of Russian words engraved.
“Torov Building, underground area d5.”
This key was summoned by Merlin when she tried the Monkey Wishing Spell for the second time. It was already a few years ago. The Monkey Wishing Spell was found by Merlin in the large library of the Demon France Society. It is an extremely unreliable mutant magic of flying in the flying spell.
It is said to be able to realize all the wishes of the spellcaster, but in fact, releasing this monkey version of the wish spell according to the inner wishes of the spellcaster often brings some weird and exaggerated things.
Merlin has used it three times.
For the first time, the Wishing Spell brought the original underwear of the Mercenary Spirit Butterfly to the lonely Merlin.
The second time, the wishing spell brought Merlin the key that made him confused at the time.
The third time, the Wishing Spell simply brought the orange cat Gugu who had already run into the stars to have fun back to Meilin.
This fully demonstrates that the magic is unreliable. As Merlin's strength becomes stronger and stronger, he rarely needs to use his luck to help himself, so the magic is forgotten behind his head.
But now it seems that this seemingly simple and funny magic is not simple
The key in Merlin's hand proves this.
The key was undoubtedly used to open the locked basement door of the building, although the lock of the door had been smashed by the mad Hydra.
"So, what exactly are those words?"
Merlin raised his head and looked at the stars who were not very clear above his head. He held the key in his hand tightly and whispered:
"Are all this in your plan?"
A few minutes later, Merlin came to the basement area d5 of the building. It was very quiet and quiet, making people feel a little nervous. The darkness in the dim and constantly shining incandescent lamps around seemed to have its own life, and they were like rolling in trying to devour everything that entered it.
But that's just an illusion.
There was nothing here, Merlin could feel that there was no magical breath, not even a Earth-bound spirit, even much cleaner than the Trident Building.
He walked through the darkness quietly, and the shadows gathered around him, like long shadows, and like a cloak.
Merlin came to the locked door. The door lock that should have been smashed by Hydra strangely returned to its original state, and the old-fashioned lock was also rusty.
Merlin looked at the lock in front of him, took a deep breath, added several shields to himself, and magic to stabilize his spirit, then reached out and inserted the marking key into the door lock.
Perfect fit.
"Click"
Merlin twisted the keys, the worn door opened inward, and he took a step forward and entered the room.
He looked up at the wall in the room.
The huge images of those lines and circles are like a complete system, which must contain some secrets, but probably because Merlin came in with the key, so the strange power attached to these words was very calm in front of him and did not take the initiative to attack it.
It is incredible peaceful.
Merlin walked forward and looked at the marks on the wall, which seemed to be painted.
"Icarus, shoot."
Merlin said, then stretched out his hand and stroked the scratch. The depth of each line was exactly the same on the wall, without any trace of pause, as if it was a stroke.
The scratch feels brand new, just like a non-mainstream artwork that was just completed not long ago, but Merlin could feel that it was already very old.
The time when these scratches existed, including the time when the wall existed, were even longer than the building. It is not even possible that the purpose of the former Soviets in building this building was perhaps to cover up the existence of the scratched wall.
But what exactly is it?
Icarus' database contains text samples of the Kerry, but the problem is that the text used by the Kerry now is extremely different from the language they used in ancient times, which is more similar to cuneiform. More importantly, the image itself should have used some special encryption methods, otherwise these texts would not be connected into such a regular picture.
"Swish"
Just as Merlin finished reading the scratches on the wall and the unrecognizable ancient Kerry words, the magic closed loop that had lasted for several years on his right arm suddenly disappeared at this moment.
The sudden and free feeling that no longer hinders the movement of magic power made Merlin blink in surprise.
The magic closed loop on his arm represents the contract he made with parchment, which is the "debt" owed by Merlin.
Every time Merlin seeks the help of parchment over the past few years, the weird thing has induced Merlin to do something very hell, but it occasionally makes Merlin do some serious things.
There is one thing that has been delayed for a long time.
"Continue to explore the secrets of the 'infinite formula'."
Merlin still remembers the request made by parchment, and now, without any preparation or even clue, his "debt" has been completed inexplicably.
"So, this is the legendary infinite formula?"
Merlin looked at the ancient Kerry words on the wall in front of him, rubbing his chin, and he whispered:
"This is the complete version of those incomplete marks on the surface of the Inhuman Obelisk?"
"The key to perfect life"
Merlin muttered this sentence, then took out his notebook and released a copying spell for the signature pen he carried with him. The signature pen seemed to be held invisible hand and began to copy pictures on the wall on the notebook. After a few minutes, Merlin put away the notebook and finally glanced at the marks on the wall. He turned around and opened the door and walked out.
"Mike, Barbie, I have made a preliminary treatment for this containment and change the way of containing it, so this thing cannot be moved."
Merlin said to his subordinates in the communicator:
"Notify the agents of the Belarusian branch to go to work as usual tomorrow, but you two stay here to temporarily block the underground D5 area, re-block the underground area with military standard reinforced concrete, and set up an observation station here."
"The code name here is 05084-1, the confidentiality level is set to level 8 or level 9."
Merlin reminded:
"05084-1 is almost the most mysterious unknown thing we have insulated, so you must be more cautious. I will discuss the specific processing process with you later. This matter will be reported to Colson, so that he will suspend everything at hand and be directly responsible for this matter."
"Okay, sir."
Agent Barbie responded, Merlin hung up the communication, turned around and pulled out his wand, releasing several seal spells to the closed door.
After doing all this, he casually looked for a door in the basement, then entered the mysterious house with the keys of the mysterious house, and walked straight to the parchment placed on the wooden shelf by the fireplace.
He spread the parchment and wrote on it:
Chapter completed!